Re: [unrev-II] Session #2 - Moving People?

From: Gary Schneider (garys@acusd.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 12:18:54 PST


From: Gary Schneider <garys@acusd.edu>

At 1/20/00 09:40 AM +1100, you wrote:
>From: Jeff Miller <jeffm@dynamite.com.au>
>.... Sometimes just
>being in the class room/lecture theatre helps focus the mind. I once
>heard it said that more students pass exams if they take it in the
>same room as the one in which they were taught.

That is correct. The phenomenon is called "encoding specificity" and is
generally accepted by cognitive psychologists.
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